today, parenting and listening

bare tree and frost protection white in the garden

what wonderful ways
can we discover
today

to be present
with ourselves

and our
children?

they have their own
lives

we can guide
a little

watch and listen
a lot

try to control
and go crazy
or drive them crazy
or both

and still: it's so "human"
to want to "help"
and "we know better"
blah, blah, blah

and sometimes
they do need to be controlled
from wrecking the place
or hurting themselves
and then:
it's just a game
how to take destructive
energies
and put them to use with pottery
or digging
or jumping
or running
it's all
a
chance
to
learn
to dance

it's all
a
chance
to
learn
to
dance